Shim6, was: Re: filtering /48 is going to be necessary

Thu Mar 15 14:44:59 UTC 2012

On Thu, Mar 15, 2012 at 10:41, Eugen Leitl <eugen at leitl.org> wrote:
> On Thu, Mar 15, 2012 at 10:25:46AM -0400, William Herrin wrote:
>
>> Geographic routing strategies have been all but proven to irredeemably
>> violate the recursive commercial payment relationships which create
>> the Internet's topology. In other words, they always end up stealing
>> bandwidth on links for which neither the source of the packet nor it's
>> destination have paid for a right to use.
>>
>> This is documented in a 2008 Routing Research Group thread.
>> http://www.ops.ietf.org/lists/rrg/2008/msg01781.html

> I think the problem can be tackled by implementing this in
> wireless last-mile networks owned and operated by end users.

Interesting point, and the growth in municipal networks could help.
But they are still a vast minority.

Scott